It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

  • @Valmond@lemmy.world
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    63 months ago

    I use ‘main’ on git instead of ‘master’ now (forced to change at work) and its shorter and snappier IMO.

    But yeah there are more important problems out there.

      • silly goose meekah
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        While I agree with your assumption, I think main is less vague. Master can be interpreted several ways, including an offensive one. So while I agree with other commenter in that it’s unnecessary to go back and change things retroactively, but just setting the default branch name for new repos in your version control to main is a fair thing to ask IMO.

        • KillingTimeItself
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          23 months ago

          including an offensive one.

          Is the code going to be offended? If so it’s probably already offended by it’s likely very bad code quality and lack of maintenance and repair.

          • silly goose meekah
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            33 months ago

            Not the code, but some of your coworkers might potentially be offended.

            Also good job with the ad hominem.

            • KillingTimeItself
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              -13 months ago

              obviously the code wont be offended, i was just shitposting.

              As for the code quality, it’s not adhom, it’s literally just true. Go ask any seasoned programmer, any senior dev, or any junior dev, they’ll tell you it’s all dogshit, except for the one pet project they have that hasn’t ballooned into a mess yet.

              And if you need proof, go load a website, tell me how clean and responsive it is. Surely it has no issues, and works on a cross platform standard. Oh wait it doesn’t, surely that’s do to a feature difference right? What’s that? Spoofing the user agent fixes it? Hmm.

              • silly goose meekah
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                13 months ago

                Oh, as a programmer myself I’m perfectly aware of how shitty most codebases are. It’s just that the context you said this in implied that people who care about political correctness are worse programmers. Dont act like this wasn’t on purpose and hide behind “shitposting”.

    • @Scrollone@feddit.it
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      I insist on renaming main to master every time I create a repo on GitLab. Master forever, even if it doesn’t make much sense.

        • KillingTimeItself
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          23 months ago

          most things in life make very little sense, have you ever thought about land rights?

            • KillingTimeItself
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              13 months ago

              considering the way that native/aboriginal people view the land that they inhabit, it’s pretty common for certain geographic places to be considered “sacred” or ritualistic. Prior to the colonization of these lands these people just existed, living on their land, little to no concept of “westernized land rights” until the western people showed up and colonized, killing a lot of them in the process.

              And obviously there were fights, as per usual it’s the one constant behind who holds what land. But beyond fighting for your territory in a literal sense. Isn’t it funny that we all live on a piece of land that we bought and own or lease/rent from the local government? Who in turn is the legal rights holder of that land specifically. We as individual land owners aren’t fighting wars, it’s the government in this example who is the “haha i killed you it’s my land now” entity. Only to turn around and then go “here, you can have this but only if you give me money.”

              Aside from the little slips of paper that we have, which are so called “binding agreements” between two or more individuals. The only thing that defines who owns what land, is who defends that title of ownership most successfully. And in this case, it’s the government. But the concept of land ownership itself is fucking stupid to begin with. How much land do we own? How do we own it? to what level of ownership does having a plot of land constitute? There are so many questions, and very few are answered.

              You may own a piece of land, but if you have a river running through that property, you don’t own the river. It’s not a thing that you can do. You could also own a piece of land, say for example a random sand dune in indiana somewhere. And then consume that sand dune in the process of making funny blue colored glass for electrical insulators. Do you own the sand anymore? Do you own the land where the sand once was? Does that piece of land even exist anymore?

        • @Scrollone@feddit.it
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          23 months ago

          It makes sense because “master copy” is the name of the “official” version of something. Nothing to do with slavery by the way.

          • silly goose meekah
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            03 months ago

            But “Main” is more clear, and putting in extra effort to basically just piss off politically (over)correct people doesn’t make any sense, and is kinda weird tbh

          • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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            03 months ago

            It’s already not the master copy if you have release branches or tags, but it is the “main” branch 🤪

        • NostraDavid
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          I don’t know about Scrollone, but I hate it when corporations force me to change for the sake of change. Options to change is fine (in case someone doesn’t like the default), of course.

          And no, “inclusivity” is not the actual reason, as that’s already covered by adding the option to change (which again, is completely fine)

      • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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        So you are not passively against progress, you are doing it actively.

        Has very much “vinyl is better than modern media” vibes.